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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
Paine: “We want students to realize their full potential as business leaders.” Courtesy HBS Communications When Andy Mulkerin (HBS ’05), a chemical engineer by training, came to HBS he knew that his class would be the first to take... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
in this effort, including Southwest Airlines (with its Southwest Airlines One Report), United Technologies Corporation (UTC), the Dutch electronics and health-care giant Philips, the German chemical company BASF, and Danish pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
Henry G. Walter, Jr.
Walter built International Flavors and Fragrances into the world’s largest producer and supplier of scents. He was a pioneer in the burgeoning field of aromatherapy and established a tradition of innovation and research within the industry. He led the company through... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Thomas C. du Pont
duPont consolidated the military powder production industry to the point where the duPont Corporation was producing 90% of all explosives in the U.S. In a matter of four years, duPont acquired the stocks of more than 100 of his competitors, eliminating 64 of them. In... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Francis B. Davis Jr.
In 1928, United States Rubber lost $10 million due to the collapse of the world crude rubber market. Taking over the helm in 1929, Davis reorganized the company, putting in place a multi-divisional organizational structure. Davis reduced the company’s debt by $40... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
States, Europe, and Japan, it was supposed to examine two sectors: first, the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, which helped bring about the Second Industrial Revolution between the 1880s and 1920s, and second, consumer electronics... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
which trains disadvantaged inner-city youths and unemployed adults of southwestern Pennsylvania for jobs in high-tech, culinary, and medical fields, partnered with Bayer, a major pharmaceutical and chemical company, to develop a View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
cofounder and CEO of Ocochem, a startup developing an electrochemical process to turn carbon dioxide into formic acid. Now, formic acid is not something most people are familiar with, but it's a pretty important chemical compound. It's... View Details
- Profile
Taylor Wiegele
As a boy, Taylor Wiegele could often be found in the kitchen "making mixtures of random ingredients." Fortunately, for him and for his family, Taylor's enthusiasm for "potions" evolved into a real chemistry expertise. After studying View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
raises topics of fund selection and investing in country-specific funds such as Mexico. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208097 Patel Food and Chemicals Private Limited (A) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Aether Diamonds makes its precious gems out of thin air—literally. The three-year-old company uses carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere to synthesize stones that are View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
degree in chemical engineering, in 1989, she worked at Procter & Gamble in engineering and product development, and then in product supply, as the company started buying cosmetics businesses. When a New York–based startup recruited her in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
Harold M. Brierley (MBA '68), chairman and CEO of Brierley & Partners, describes himself as "an accidental entrepreneur," having entered HBS as a chemical engineer planning to pursue a management career in the oil industry. "HBS... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
offices. Here's my proposal: I ask that the Association of University Technology Managers establish a set of standards, balancing public interests and private incentives, that would encourage the development of new chemical entities for... View Details
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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
A Life’s Work Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) realized what he wanted to do with his life when he was just 21 years old. Having volunteered as a Big Brother while working at Chemical Bank in New York City, he saw firsthand the need for a... View Details
- February 1986 (Revised November 1992)
- Case
Novo Industri A/S--1981
By: W. Carl Kester and Glynn Ferguson
This small but rapidly growing Danish biochemical company must choose among several financing opportunities that include a convertible Eurobond, a rights offering in Denmark and an issue of new common shares in the United States. The case involves a broad range of... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Cost of Capital; Bonds; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Globalization; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Denmark; United States
Kester, W. Carl, and Glynn Ferguson. "Novo Industri A/S--1981." Harvard Business School Case 286-084, February 1986. (Revised November 1992.)
- September 1998
- Teaching Note
Gordon Cain and the Sterling Group Series TN
By: Michael C. Jensen and Brian Barry
Teaching Note for (9-492-021) and (9-492-022). View Details
- March 1995 (Revised January 1996)
- Teaching Note
Portfolio Planning at Ciba-Geigy and the Newport Investment Proposal TN
By: David J. Collis
Teaching Note for (9-795-040). View Details
Collis, David J. "Portfolio Planning at Ciba-Geigy and the Newport Investment Proposal TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 795-107, March 1995. (Revised January 1996.)
- January 1997 (Revised July 1998)
- Case
Dendrite International (Condensed)
By: John A. Deighton
This version has been shortened to concentrate on the issue of managing a long selling process and long post-sale account relationship. The focus on the pharmaceutical industry in the United States, Europe, and Japan is preserved. Broader questions of expansion into... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Marketing Strategy; Product Development; Sales; Expansion; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Japan; Europe; United States
Deighton, John A. "Dendrite International (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 597-072, January 1997. (Revised July 1998.) (request a courtesy copy.)